Bat colonies can reach truly enormous sizes, some with millions of bats pouring out to feed each night, and one cave in Texas ...

Millions of bats of all kinds, chiefly Free-tailed or Guano Bats from Mexico, make their winter home in Carlsbad Cavern and neighboring caves in New Mexico. There are a few varieties of bat which ...

At dusk, a swarm of bats disperses to hunt in the rainforest surrounding Deer Cave. One of the planet’s largest underground passages, it holds more than two million bats. This story appears in ...

A fast-moving disease is killing bats across North America. We need your help to stop it. White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats since it was ... Bat poop is also an essential source of ...

An estimated 6.7 million bats have died since 2006 because of an outbreak of white-nose syndrome, a fast-moving disease that has wiped out entire colonies and left caves littered with the bones of ...

Why it's awesome: Deep inside one of Gabon's cave systems lives an unusual population of orange dwarf crocodiles. They live in complete darkness, feast on bats and swim in liquid guano (aka bat poop.) ...

and putting up gates to protect bats in mines or caves.” This year the National Park Service committed $3 million to WNS-related projects, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has pledged $2.5 ...

The bat faces extinction due to the impacts of white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease affecting cave-dwelling bats ... like this can cost hundreds of millions of dollars.” North Carolina is ...